Best 3-year-old filly? Do you really need to ask?

It’s Rachel Alexandra and it was unanimous. The 3-year-old filly, who won all eight of her starts this year and beat males three times, received all 232 votes to get the Eclipse Award.

Rachel, of course, is also up for Horse of the Year, which will be announced later in the evening.

“This has been a particulary great year for throughbred racing,” owner Jess Jackson said. “This has been a year, I hope, that begins to turn throughbred racing in a positive direction. We certainly feel we were blessed to have her (Rachel) and have her meet the challenges our team kept giving her. ”

Rachel beat 3-year-old males in the Preakness and Haskell and capped her year with a win over older males at the Woodward at Saratoga.